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“Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and they were things that, more importantly, were wrong and should change, and once I realized that, there was really no going back.”

People Inspirational Process Change Natural Wrong

Author:Aaron Swartz

“Growing up I used to ... one of my heroes growing up was President John F. Kennedy. And I actually have a memory box from when I was a little where I saved articles about President Kennedy. He was a real hero.”

Littles Real Used President Memories Growing Up Growing Hero Boxes Saved Articles My Hero President Kennedy Real Heroes President John F Kennedy

Author:Mike Pence

“Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.”

Made Used Perfect Growing Up Growing Band Stones Plant Rolling Rolling Stones Used To Love

Author:Alison Krauss

“Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.”

Wanted Actors Growing Up Growing Balls Eight Mum Mixtures Hepburn Audrey

Author:Dianna Agron

“Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.”

Play Wanted Guy Found Interesting Roles Growing Up Growing That Guy Tracy

Author:Joyce DeWitt

“Growing up, I was always filled with DoNotDisturbery, and I dance like a Slippery When Wet sign with legs. The jerky motion might remind you of a Pekin duck in flight.”

Humor Dancing Dance Absurd Flight Ducks Duck Duck Quote

Author:Jarod Kintz

Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.”

Way Long Feelings Found Felt Growing Up Growing Long Time Lonely Accounts Obsession So Lonely Found Someone

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing

Author:Eliza Dushku

“Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.”

Children Actors Growing Up Path Growing Involved Theater Singers

Author:Victor Garber

“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.”

Firsts Kind Art School Growing Up Saws Growing High School Impact Contemporary Arrested Turning Points Contemporary Art Billboards Surrealist Impressionists Torres

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.”

Happens Spirit Growing Up Rich Growing Standing Balls Court Championship Racket Rich Family

Author:Serena Williams

“Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.”

Years Wells Wanted Artist Culture Growing Up Growing One Thing Grew Birth Female Twenties Males Accomplishment Fifteen Criteria Persona Membership Fifteen Years Femme Dykes

Author:Del LaGrace Volcano

“Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people. I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't going to talk to people the way that they did. My mindset is, if you want to see the true character of a person watch how they treat those who can't do anything for them.”

People Character Growing Up Mindset True Character

Author:Charlamagne Tha God

“Growing up I would hear my parents and many others in society that you should always succeed but never fail in anything. This is where the seed of failure is seeded in the minds of generations that failing is bad. But the truth is failure is the first step towards success if you haven't failed you have not succeeded. We have a negative relationship with failure in fact we need to understand failure has come to make us even better, stronger and greater version of ourselves. It is okay to fail and it is okay to fail multiple times but the only thing we need to carry is never giving up attitude towards the goals we are trying to achieve. The more you fail the more you are taught from the failure deeper understanding of success.”

Failure Success Quotes Failure Quotes Failure And Success Real Success

Author:Aiyaz Uddin

Source: Science Behind A Perfect Life

“Growing up, imagination gave way to cynicism. Ignorance was traded in for world weariness. Fears remained, but they were the dull, suburban fears of illness, destitution, and death. The visceral terror of the unknown- of unseen things lurking under the bed or creeping out of the cupboard- became a fuzzy memory.”

Fear Growing Up Adulthood

Author:John McNee

Source: Prince of Nightmares

“Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.”

Growing Up Growing Trade Tricks

Author:Anne Robinson

“Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.”

Bigs Talking Growing Up Growing My Family England Tired British Flying Planes Household Visiting

Author:Alan Bradley

“Growing up in a culture that constantly reminds one that they are an outsider can be deeply destructive, especially since that standard voice is so very strong, and becomes ingrained in the consciousness so early. Survival requires finding a way to come to peace with that voice and all the others: to subdue it, or to make it work towards one's own ends. The tale would be different indeed if Pegasus talked back to Perseus.”

Growth Race

Author:Laura Yes Yes

Source: How to Seduce a White Boy in Ten Easy Steps

“Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.”

Actors Language Common Growing Up Growing Speech Lows Rejection Supportive Highs And Lows Shorthand Common Language

Author:Chris Pine

“Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.”

Firsts Wells Growing Up Growing Effects Inspired California Classical Music

Author:Jello Biafra

“Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either hate them or love them, but that's not how people are.”

Love Hate Abuse Abusive Relationships

Author:Trevor Noah

Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Growing up in a house of five girls, I couldn't help but glance at a fashion magazine or two.”

Two Helping Girl House Growing Up Five Growing Fashion Magazines Glances Fashion Magazines

Author:Karlie Kloss

“Growing up in a house where everyone was welcome, I had no idea that racism ever existed. Imagine being so nieve that when I was called a "cracker" I thought he was teasing me because I was so pale, (like a saltine cracker). After someone explained to me what being called a "cracker" meant, I realized being white means I am viewed by those with black skin as the enemy. I AM WHITE, I AM NOT A RACIST- IT IS BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE RACIST AGAINST ME.....”

Racisim In America

Author:MJ

“Growing up in a house with six brothers and sisters is a lot like being on a tour bus. There's not a whole lot of private space, so you figure out how to make it work.”

Whole House Space Growing Up Growing Figures Brother Six Bus Brothers And Sisters

Author:Michael Timmins

“Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it's unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.”

Children Growing Up Troubled Backgrounds

Author:Diane Chamberlain

Source: The Silent Sister

“Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.”

World Facts Mother Perfect Cities Growing Up Issues Wife Growing Brother Perspective Proud Gay Gender Paradise Lakes Salt Utah Wives And Mothers Younger Sister Gender Issues Salt Lake City

Author:Roseanne Barr

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.”

Way Ends Creative Growing Up Growing Resources Income

Author:Hilary Swank

“Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.”

Trying Different Kids School Felt Growing Up Growing Equal Approach Multicultural

Author:Priscilla Ahn

“Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.”

World Way Important Young Growing Up Growing Catholic Jersey Suburbs New Jersey Catholic Faith Young Life

Author:James Lecesne

“Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.”

Giving Class Growing Up Fire Growing Particular Anger Edges Neighborhood Working Class

Author:Gary Oldman

“Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is just as cold as you, so you shouldn't complain about it too much. You learn this as a kid, coming home crying from the cold, and Mother looks down and says, 'It's only a little frostbite. You're okay.' And thus you learn to be okay. What's done is done. Get over it. Drink your coffee. It's not the best you'll ever get but it's good enough.”

“Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.”

People Littles Long Has Beens Secret Talking Growing Up Growing Violence Towns Protection Dirty Providing Domestic Violence Alaska

Author:Lisa Murkowski

“Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.”

Three Growing Up Growing Towns Catholic Layers Small Town Repression Midwest Growing Up In A Small Town

Author:Paul Rust

“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.”

Littles States America Guy Values Fighting Levels United United States Growing Up Growing Areas Discrimination Valleys Framework County Poorest Colorado

Author:Ken Salazar

“Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.”

Children Home Growth Growing Up Growing Development Aspect Scary Violent Traumatic Experiences

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“Growing up in a world that wasn't created for even the most basic level of my existence meant that I grew up incredibly ostracised and ridiculed. I was taught from a young age that my mind wasn't valued, that my existence wasn't important, that I wasn't supposed to be here. How can a little girl ever find herself when every part of society is telling her that she can't be the only version of herself she has ever known?”

Society Mental Illness Rejection Social Norms Neurodivergence

Author:Chloé Hayden

Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.”

People Fun Teach Growing Up Growing Risk Summer Gold Scared Swim Beard Alaska Amanda Had Fun Scuba I Had Fun

Author:Holly Madison

“Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.”

Looks America Culture White Growing Up Growing Appreciated Hispanic

Author:Demi Lovato

“Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.”

Use Forget Growing Up Growing Minutes Tone Italian Harsh Italian Family

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.”

Running School Growing Up Growing Anarchy Old Fashioned Nun Bengali

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.”

Body School Consciousness Growing Up Growing Taught Particular Periods Female Catholic Sensitive Visible Missionary Site Asia Nun Repressed Female Body Time Periods

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.”

Firsts Parent Growing Up Growing Fashion Style Importance Impression Atlanta First Impression

Author:Cam Newton

“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.”

People Thinking Persons Country Bigs Three Cities Growing Up Five Four Growing Fashion New York Particular Swagger Atlanta

Author:Cam Newton

“Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.”

Way Made Culture Growing Up Growing Shock Dna Immune Bombay Culture Shock

Author:Freida Pinto

“Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.”

School Growing Up Growing Son Brother High School England Former My Brother Patriot Senior Boston New England High School Senior New England Patriots

Author:Matt Hasselbeck

“Growing up in Britain, we didn't have much, worked for everything. To leave food on the plate, Mom classed it as being rude and so we ate because we were hungry, not ate because we had a choice in the fridge.”

Choices Growing Up Growing Mom Hungry Britain Plates Rude Fridges Being Rude

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.”

Watches Growing Up Growing Football Canada

Author:Sidney Crosby

“Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.”

Dream Bigs Kids Goal Growing Up Growing Team One Day Cups Canada Nhl Stanley Stanley Cup

Author:Bobby Orr

“Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Singing Franklin Cleveland

Author:Tracy Chapman

“Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.”

House Growing Up Growing Diversity Extremes Los Angeles Connecticut

Author:Moby

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